LongLine

I live in a city, boat on trailer in my driveway blocked by my truck. Boat hitched up the night before I'm going. Rigg'rs, rods, tackle go in when I uncover it in the morning & all come out when I unhitch it & cover it in the afternoon everytime. Better to be safe than sorry.

Wed Wider (say Red Rider - 5 times fast)

I launch on the Genny in Rochester NY. It has pemanent wooden cribed docks & is fairly steep. I usually launch solo real early. Amenities are nice but launching the boat is paramount. Don't know if it fits where you are but I'd recomend: 1. a good number of solid cleats to tie boats up to. 2. some kind of permanent bumpers on the docks. (2 levels of horizontal) 3. some kind of step or high curb, parallel the front 15 foot of dock, so when the water goes down in the fall, you can get up on dock without having to walk to the front of the dock. (not as young as I used to be) 4. a ladder or hand rail near the ends of docks to help us old codgers get in and out at low water. 5. Some lights illuminating the dock area 6. grooved concrete, not blacktop within twenty feet of the high water line and extending a little into the water. Grooves should be at at angle to the water line, not parallel & not perpendicular. This will give drainage and help with traction. Blacktop just won't hold up near water. 7. Our ramp is steeped with two angles. Regardless of the water level, the truck is generally on the lesser angle and the trailer goes down the steeper. (maybe 5 deg difference) 8. if dock surface is metal then some kind of non-slip surface. If wood then a 1/8" space between slats for drainnage. Good luck.

Great job.

Thanx - Pipe is 9 1/2" long

Always wanted a little heavier rigger weight & needed a project so... : Used a piece of fence post pipe. Cut down one side of it with a hacksaw. Used 4 fence hanger clamps to hold it back together. Made a small metal base plate that I clamped to the bottom hanger, to seal off the bottom. Melted lead in an old iron sauce pan on the grill, fired with some scrap wood. Made the tail out of an old piece of 1/8" aluminum. Cut the tail slot with an old wood rip saw. (surprisingly tight fit) Pointed the front of it on my old lathe. Used a ss screw & washers to build up the nose a little. Hung it with string from the rafter to find balance point. Then drilled the holes for the I-bolt. (careful how you drill lead - do a little then let cool or lead will melt & jam drill bit) All threads sealed with an adhesive. Painted it silver. Total cost - under $3. Whoa-la - 14 Lbs, on the money. Will it work? I'll find out 1st week in April. Come on Spring

At least one county has woken up

At 6:49PM on 1/11/2010, (a few minutes ago) the website reading was 38 Mw. (thirty-eight) I wonder what happened to the other 1,062 Mw?

Here's an interesting site that proves the 30% figure. Its the actual power output monitoring site for the Ontario (Canada) wind farms which have an installed capacity of 1,100 megawatts. At 11:28 this morning it was producing 387 megs. http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/marketdata/windpower.asp If you go over to the right & click on a link, you'll get a sheet that shows their hourly output since inception. I'd say they are are having a very good day today. (scroll throught he last month or so and see the variation and how many zero's there are) Power output is directly proportional to wind velocity. However it is not linear. This sheet shows how the output is affected by the velocity. http://www.ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/WindmillFormula.htm Output at 1 m/s is 1/1000th that of 10m/s. There are no batteries large enough to store excess electricity from turbines. All that "juice" or lack of "juice" does diretly into the grid. As we become more & more dependent upon the wind, what kind of sudden Brownouts & surges are we going to experience? How many computers, TVs or refrigerators am I going to have to buy before I die? It's interesting that the 1st site in that it says the current 387 megs can power 70,000 clothes dryers. My dryer runs on natural gas.

Do you guys honestly think you’ll be allowed to fish anywhere’s near them? There’s a fairly new gov’t agency called “homeland security†that will see to that you don’t. That newly created fish structure means nothing. Turbines themselves aren’t the problem unless of course they’re built like the one at Fenner that just fell a few weeks ago. (on land – and for no apparent reason) Jobs? – what a joke! All they do is displace workers. Maple Ridge (Lowville) in NYS which is the largest windfarm E of the Miss River was just declared a “shirt-changer by NYS & lost it Empire tax zoning because it didn’t create the jobs it promised. Lewis County is going to receive less than 25% of the revenue it was promised from the windfarm in its 2010 budget. BTW, Maple Ridge turbines were all imported from Denmark and not made in USA where it would have put people to work. Solid Technology based upon unpredictable weather. That’s more great thinking. Turbine companies brag about wattage, yet they don’t tell you that the best turbines in the world (Dane & German) only deliver 25- 30% of the nameplate ratings at best. I.E. Rating for 100 Megs only delivers 25-30 megs. Lowville's website reports actual voltages that were much less that those promised. Turbine companies look at yearly averages and will only admit behind closed doors that turbines don’t produce electricity when the wind isn’t blowing such as on those hot muggy summer days when electric demand is greatest or when the gales of November are blowing and the wind is too strong. (When they’re shut down as they’ll burn out as they’ll overload the grid) Climate change people tell us that storms are going to become even more violent. They have to have backup power generation just as they found out in Denmark, Norway and Germany….oops, they still have to build conventional power plants. Maple Ridge/Lowville killed over 2000 bats last year & their mitigation is to put more lights on the blades. That’s more of their brilliant thinking. (Bats are blind…) Should be quite a sight for property owners to look out over the water at night and see all the Ferris wheels. But the biggest issues I see are in the transmission lines & construction. The Transmission lines will be under water that connect the turbines together and multiple lines will need to be run to shore. (0.5 to 2 Hz at over 30Kv) Didn’t anyone tell these people that the Corps of Engineers is trying to stop fish movement with Electricity? (Asian Carp) They certainly didn’t tell them about the “Black boxes†that some fishermen swear by. OSHA has a regulation that says a worker can't come within 27 ft of a live Trans line without being properly attired. Yet the turbine company expects a naked fish, whose only instinct is survival to not be affected by it? There goes the nearshore fishery. Secondly – Didn’t anyone tell the electric companies that there are 12 USEPA Areas of Concern on Lake Michigan with heavily polluted sediments as the reason? Much of the pollution of 150 years has been buried by just a few years of somewhat cleaner sediments. When they dig up the bottom for foundations (to reach solid bedrock) or to bury parts of the transmission lines, where are they sediments going? They don’t appear to care if they pollute the entire lake as the natural movement of water (currents) will carry the sediments all over the place. Yes, the electric companies are in favor of green. Unfortunately the only green they are looking at is the color of money and has nothing to do with the environment. They just want the easiest way to rake in the bucks, making us subsidize them, not pay easements and if they can ride the environmental movement with their own spin and false promises, to do it, they will. US Executive order 13340 declared the Great Lakes a Natural Treasure; A treaty was signed with Canada to protect the Great lakes; Agencies and sportsmen have been trying to restore the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes never had windfarms and they should not be allowed out there now.

Blogger says: Mayor Daley; Senators Durbin and Burris; Gov. Quinn; Attorney General Madigan; the Illinois congressional delegation; President Obama: Where are you? Yeah, where are you morons? You should have filled that ditch in years ago! As far as going after the St Lawrance. Your absolutely right. Fill that ditch in also! The object is to export goods, not import. But I guess that fool didn't take economics 101. At last, the A.G. of NY is joining the effort to close it down.

Heartland developed a way to grind them up. Don't know if they had much of a market though. http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1092974114/Havana-plant-takes-aim-at-carp From what I understand the original farmers that brought them in are long dead now. They ought to just fill in that canal anyways.

Semper Fi

Definitely singles. No net hassle, better hook ups, more wobble at slow speed, less points to sharpen, easier to get out of a fishes mouth, don't have to worry about the other two prongs when you're pulling it out of your finger...

Thermocline is not in 30"s. It is a band of water 5-10 ft thick where temp changes rapidly. High end 53-54F, then drops rapidly as you lower the ball just a little. Low end may go as low as 39 but usualy 42-43F. IE It may be 70 on top all the way to 25 Ft down, then from 15 Ft to 60 Ft, it slowly drops to 54, then from 60 to 65 it drops from 54F to 43F. The 60-65 Ft range is the thermocline. I doubt that your unit is picking up the thermocline. Blue splotches could be interference but I'd more likely suspect clumps of fleas, seaweed, etc. Straight lines on your pics could be weights, probes, releases.

This guy deserves a public flogging. The seaway & it's ocean going freighters have done more than enough damage to the Great Lakes with their dam ballast water.

Thanx guys. I've found that on those heavy overcast days purples are the go-to color.

Launched at the river again, about 5:00. Went solo this time. Went straight out to 120 FOW. Heavy clouds. Very slight ENE wind. Put on the purple freebie that JV’s gave me for telling them that Reeljerks sent me and set it down 27 ft & about 40 back. Within a couple minutes I had this guy: (DW SS Bloody Death) Bow: Putted around for about an hour then put an NK28 Purple Spook on the other rigger & dropped it to 34 down, back about 60. Was over 130 FOW when the DW fired. Had it on for about 10 minutes then the spook fired. Landed the first one but treble got stuck in the net so I threw the whole thing between the seats and grabbed the other rod. Luckily he was still there. Got him to the boat but had to tail him. My first decent king double as a soloist in a long time. 16 & just shy of 20#. Took a while for my knees to stop shaking. Did some backtracking & got this little guy: Headed out a little & got 7 more shakers. I love to see this on the screen: Unfortunately that beast couldn't beat this guy: These guys did the damage: Good luck to all,

I competed against the Rev Modish who won the 1st ESLO derby on Lake Ontario a long time ago. He won a 14 ft aluminum boat with a 5 Lb salmon for his church. As I remember something like only a dozen salmon were turned in as people just didn't know how to catch them. My brother won a door prize.

Ditto what Nailer said. Tension screw is the key. You have to have just the right tension on it & you won't need bands.

East end of Big-O is generally warmer than western end during summer. Then the cold water moves basically toward the southern shore in early August. Right after that the salmon key in on their home water. Up till that time the west end of the Lake is still the hot spot. Pt Breeze, Wilson, Olcott & of course the Niagara. Salmon River probably has the biggest run as the hatchery is there with all the DEC support. It really lights up in Sept. as it’s the most habitat favorable river on Big-O for the Salmon. I don’t fish the East end but I know most of the guys go deep to find them until the fish start staging. Good Luck

Just a little more "full bodied" than the Doctor Spoon made by Prescott Spinner Co. (yellow bird) I Like those color patterns. Glo? Doctors could be troller with either end as the front. Single or trebble - both came in the package. Used to be great BT lures.

When I 1st got mine, I had a problem with it so I called them. Duane told me to send it in. I told him I was coming to Buffalo to visit another Co which was nearby & would drop it off then. Anyways that day came and at Lunch time I ran the unit in to him. He interrupted his lunch & looked at it immediately. Half hr later I was on my way with a healthy unit. I'm quite surprised you had a bad experience.

I Snell the hooks but I bend the hook eye up just a little, before tying.

Glad to hear you're okay. Next time...Don't let there be a next time! Tom B. (LongLine)